THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929.
CLINIC HOSPITAL, SERIOUS KOWLOON WANTED CEMENT GRENADIER GUARDS BRITISH GENERAL
DISASTER:
CHARGES.
DEATH-ROLL CLIMBING ALLEGED INTIMIDATION AND
STEADILY.
GIRL TELEPHONE OPERATOR'S HEROISM,
CONSPIRACY.
FOR BATH!
NOVEL EXCUSE ON CHARGE OF THEFT.
ON PARADE.
INSPECTED BY H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT,
CASE FOR COMMITTAL. COOLIES WHO BOLTED.
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Wilh an eye to enjoying thei
· Douglas Gifford (24), unemploy-" ed, Chau Tak, unemployed, and amenities of life, two coolica stole Cheng Hang-kwong, electrician, a bag of cement from the Lam Woo KILLED BY POISON GAS. appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte Company, building contractors.
Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy The first stated that there was this morning, on charges of con- no bathing accommodation in his spiracy to defraud and intimida-matshed and therefore he was tion.
going to spend his leisure hours in The full charges against the de-building a bath! fendants were;
New York, May 16. The newspapers are filled with graphic stories of the terrible disaster at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, detailing the ghastly). effects of the poison gas.
COLOURFUL SCENES.
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London, May 16.
ELECTION.
MR. BALDWIN AND THE WHITE PAPER,
LIBERAL MISREPRESENTATION RESPONSIBLE.
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The Grenadier Guards, on the Horse Guards Parade, were in- spected by the Duke of Connaught ONLY THING POSSIBLE. this morning. All three battalions of the Grenadiera were on parade,
London, May 16. one Battalion coming from the
Fashionably dressed women Tower of London and other Batta- liona from Chelsen Barracks and mingled with the top-hatted busi-
ness and Industrial magnates; The second said that the cook-Brompton Barracks.
The Duke of Connaught, wear-which assembled at a meeting of (1)-That they, on May 14 and house was sadly in need of repnir
of London electors, of whom he had been Colonel addressed by Mr. Stanley Baldi Many of the victims of the gas 15, unlawfully did conspire, comand that was why he assisted the ing the uniform of the Grenadiers, the City have since succumbed in terrible bine and confederato together to first accused to carry the bag.
Both coolies were charged with for twenty-five years, arrived in win, the Prime Minister, this agony, as the result of the poison obtain money by means of a false acting upon the blood. Of the pretence, to wit, that they were in theft before Mr. N. L. Smith, at company with the Prince of Wales, afternoon.
of tured a reply to the attack by the forty persons reported to be in a position to, charge one, Wong the Police Court this morning, and who was in the uniform of the At the outset, Mr. Baldwin yen- the archway sat the Duke and Liberal and Labour leaders re- critical condition, a number haveau, a married woman of No. 870, there was some confusion in the Welch Guards. In a window
Canton Rund, with the crime of
The prosecution stated that the Duchess of York, Prince Arthur garding the issue of the White ssed away and the death-rall has larceny of electricity whereas, and
of Connaught and the Princess Paper dealing with unemployment, now mounted to 125.
in fact they were not in a position two coolies were apprehended by
Royal.
Mr. Lloyd George described the the watchman when they A most stringent Investigation to du 80;
Two hundred policemen, who | White Paper as an election into the disaster is proceeding, and
That they on May 15, un-carrying the bag away. One of d worn the uniform of the manifesto, and its publication as the fire is officially attributed to lawfully did threaten one Wong them ran away and the other was Regiment, stood drawn upon the White Paper as thoroughly dis- spontanos embustion of the Yau with injury to her reputation, arrested. When the latter Was Duke's left, their blue uniforms ereditable. Mr. Ramsay Mine- eclluloid X-Ray plates in the amely to charge the said Wong being interrogated at the Police contrasting vividly with the Donald was equally severe, and basement store-room, due to over-Yau with the crime of larceny of Station, he loo made good his scarlet of the soldlers. On the has also accused the Tories heating as the result of a leaking electricity with the intent in such escape, but both were later recap Duke's right were drawn up lines using Civil Servants to augment Bleam-pipe.
csc to cause the said Wong Yau ture at their place of employment of civilians who were formerly in their headquarters staff... to. do an act which she was not The coolies strongly denied that the Grenadiers. legally bound to du, to wit, to pay they had run away and individual-
Pald For Itself. the sum of several tens of dollars. y explained why they had taken in order to avoid the said charge the cement. being made.
The building still reeks of the dead poison gas, which permeated through the premises from the films and from the
burning Jaboratories.
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"Greuter Love Outstanding among the many heroic attempts at rescue in the Clinic is the story, reminiscent of shipping mishaps, of a telephone operator, Miss Gladys Gibstin, ef Scottish ancestry, who remained at her switchboard while the dre raged and is deadly perit from fumes, sending out warnings to every part of the famous Clinic and summoning police, firemen and ambulances to the scene..
The prosecution naked, for 1
week's formal remasd, intimating that on the instructions of the Public Prosecutor the case would be treated as a committal one,
The defendanta. were all manded till next Friday,
CHINESE ADMIRAL'S
LANDING.
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case.
were
of
" The Duke rode along the ranks, suspecting the Battalions and ex- Mr. Baldwin mentioned that the Guardsmen, and then, to the sales of the White Paper- had The first defendant added, in all music of the bands of the Regis already exceeded the cost of pro-i |innocence, that he had been ment, the Battalions marched in duction, and he went on to charge employed by a sub-contractor for column of companies past the the Liberals with acting un- shout ten years and it was the saluting base.
consitutionally and with being custom of all the employees to The Duke of Connaught took the guilty of misrepresentation when Like what they wanted. He wani-salute once more at the gateway they asserted that Civil Servants ed the cement to build a bathroom of Clarence House, his home, were unable to find a flaw in Mr. and he took it!
while the band played."
Lloyd George's scheme. Half an hour later, the First
The Government forbore publish- Batwallon were marching backing the Civil Servants' criticisms through the city to the Tower of of the scheme as this would have London. They exercised their an- been unconstitutional, and in) cient privilege of marching
publishing the White Paper they through the city with fixed bayo- did the only possible thing to stop
the balcony of nets, and from
farther misrepresentation and to Mansion House the Lord-Mayor Look their salute-British Wireless, Protect the Civil Servants,
Mr. Smith: Did you ask the owner? Of course nol,
Well, that is stealing you know, Of course it is not stealing. There were quite a number of people about at the time and we
the contractors we work for That is the usual system. I have done it for ten years, and it is not! stealing.
She collapsed and died as sho] INSPECTS GUARD FROM THE sudly take away materials from was being carried out of the blazi ing Building,
K.O.S.B.
The second coolio could only say that he "helped to carry the cement," and that, in any case, he taking wasted is to repair the cookhouse the public somewhat by surprise, in the matahed."
The first intimation of what wis
Died in Agay,-
This morning. Rear-Admiral 11. Earlier messages stated that Y. Chen, commanding the two the Chinese cruisers now in port, made there were 98 lead result of the hospital disaster, an official landing, his appearance
such formality Forly others are in a critical state with and have only a fighting chance of surviving. Doctors are atil desperately administering artificial respiration.
The Coroner last night attri- buted only four or five deaths to burns. Survivors declare that the agony undergone by those who were jacinerated could not be lens horrible than the convulsions of the victims of the deadly gas, the Identity of whom has not yet been established.
Resembled Phosgene.. One of the founders of the clinic is of the opinion that the gas resembles phosgene used during the war, and said the victims were dead in less than a minute after Inhaling It.
The deadliness of the gases given off by the burning X-ray films is evidenced in the case of a worn on the first floor. She window in order, 19 smashed a leap into a net spread below, but as she was climbing the windowail she was enveloped in a mist of noxious vapours and fell, back inte the room, dend.
KOWLOON TRAFFIC
CASES.
The Magistrate stated that there] WHITE LINE WHICH MISLED
to happen was signalled at about 10.30 this morning by the march was no doubt the contractor hal ing of the pipers of the King's suffered from a series of minor Own Scottish Borderers at the thefts in past years and therefore head of a column of men from the case had been brought for this Battalion to Statue Square,
Each prisoner was fined $29, They drew up in front of Queen's Pier, a Guard of Honour smartly with the alternative of 14 days
hard labour.. forming up at the entrance.
ward.
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WARSHIPS IN PORT.
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MOTORIST.
Charges of causing cbstruction,
Mr. Shen remarked to his Wor-i
Old Polices Justifled,
Mr. Baldwin went on to deal with Britain's future economic status, and urged that a Con- servative Government was esson- Gal at the present time to enable the slow process of reconstruction to continue.
He and that within the general area of the City of London, there was unrivalled Anancial power It had not and reponsibility. been built up on new policies, but primarily on the old.
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by leaving their cars ontside the Star Theatre in Hankow Road, were brought against Mr. E. J. de
Referring to the safeguarding of Figueiredo and Mr. J. Shen, before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow-industries, Mr. Baldwin said that loon Magistracy this morning. safeguarding would normally be ship that there was a white line applied after appreciation of the drawn on the road, giving the im-specific Industry and after pression that it had been painted partial inquiry. The following warships were in there to indicate a parking stand. In reply to his Worship, Sub- port this morning
Basin.-II,M.S. Tamar.
Juspector MeWalter said that the North Arm-IL.M.S. Sepoy. line had nothing to do with the W. W. Doek.-M.S. Cornwall. Traffic Department. It might -In Dock.-11.M.S. Bruce; Somme, have heen drawn by the P.W.D.
Mr. Shen pointed out that the Foreign Men-of-War. French Jine was rather misleading.
Argus, U.S.S. Tulsa; Chinese cralsers Yang Swet and
Shortly afterwards, the Chinese Rear-Adiniral landed, accompanied by, a number of his ollicers. They were welcomed by Captain F. G. Sillito, A.1.C., representing His Excellenes the Governor, After the usual musical honours had been rendered by the Band, the Rear-Admiral carried out an in- spection of the Guard of Honour. it was then escorted to a waiting motor-car and drow away, bound Sirdar. for Government House where he mude a call on His Excellency the sunbout Governor,
The whole proceedings from the Hai Yang. time The Guard of Honour and
Band assended and the departure of the Chinese visitors from the A doctor, interviewed by Reuter, Pier, did not last more than ten
minute. The parade was
wit-
said the games given off were prin-essed by a large crowd which cipally carbon monoxide, carbon bad quietly assembled, dioxide, ammonia and bromine.-- Reuter's American Sérvice.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Sonatas.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.]
Sir-May I put in a word in the somata disputef
I open the dictionary and read:
REMOVING BODY OF A SUICIDE.
TWO MEN AND BOY CHARGED ·
AT KOWLOON,
Following the dbenvery of the hody of a Chinese on the Porlama- "Sonata :---Plere of instruinenial tion at Shamanuips, the police. music made up of two, three, at the arrested two men and a boy and
most, four parts of different char-his morning brought them before acter and rhythm,"
"Sonata for one single or several Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kow- Hoon Magistracy, on a charge of removing or assisting in the removal of the body,
instruments is a sort of symphony,
A sort of symphony; therefore, in a sonuja for twa instruments, these, whatever they may be, en operate towards a blended karmony, It is evident that with its numer. ous resources and its wealth of being discovered it was found that necords, the pianoforte is called
The defendants pleaded guilty. It was stated by Detective Ser- Keant Meadows that on the body!
there were marks of a rope round
upon to take in this harmony a the neck. Enquiries revealed that more considerable share than the the man had committed suicide other instrument. This fact, 18 and the defendants had removed particularly noticeable in modern the body.
The third defendant, who was compositions. I would mention as examples the Sonatus for piano and only 16 years of age, was stated 'cello of St. Saens, Guy Roparlato have apparently heen meting and Harry Ore.
under the bistructions of the first The definition of the Sonata given | two nen. above would seem to Indicate that The first two defendants were the passages which make it up have each fined $10 or 14 days, the
no connexion between them (dif-third being cantioned.
ferent character and rhyllim,)
I think, however, that I have per- celved, in modern compositions! particularly, that the spirit withi which each piece of the sonata is Inbued is the same throughout,and that accordingly the unity of the whole work in "indisputable.
It is not necessary for this, hor ever, that a same theme should be treated and developed in various movements, an Impiled by another critic. Yours, etc.
C. B.
Hongkong, May 15th, 1929.
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
The Royal Observatory, reports that the anticyclone remaina to the East of Japan and has weakened considerably. A trough of low pressure extends from South Chinn
cross Formosa to the Pacific.
The forecast till noon to-morrow is: South-West or variable winds, moderate; fair to showery.
ANOTHER BIG MERGER.
The iron and steel industry would have to make out its cas before a tribunal.
No Food Duties, The Prime Minister further announced that he had pledged himself to impose no food duties.
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An interesting announcement Bolk defendants were fined $5. A summons against Mr. J. J. was also made to-day by Sir Raste, who was alleged to have Austen Chamberlain, who disolfeyed the traffe signals at the addressing his constituents junction of Salisbury and Nathan Birmingham. He said that Mr. Roads was dismissed, on the ean- Baldwin had invited him to con- stable failing to identify the tinue as Foreign Secretary in the new Parliament and he proposed driver. Another million dollar amalga- time in question he was in his
The defendant said that at the to do so.
Only three days remain for! mation is announced, this being ofce and the ear might have been Parliamentary between the Equitable Trust Com- taken out by someone clue. The close, but it is not anticipated that pany of New York and the N constable
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New York, May 16.
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Resulis May Be Late. Polling takes place exactly fortnight from to-day, and with the huge Increase In the electorate and millions more votes 10 count, it is expected that fewer election results will be announced on polling night, and these later than hitherto,
Furthermore, na this is "Aum- mertime," the election polling hours may be extended an hour in the boroughs of industrial divielons, This is a further reason why the authorities in many constituencies may postpone the counting until May 31-Reuter.
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